Jordan Hasay NOT to Stanford (yet)

Yep, but Oregon did provide all three 800 meter runners and a group of others in the distances. By the way, how many total medals did the USA win in all the men's and women's distance races? What state did all those medal winners hail from? Talk about bs...you have a lock on that title.

Sprints and hurdles are running events too and we are all on the same team, throwers, jummpers, vaulters, heps and dec, too. You are nothing but a damn racist. Plus Clay is from L.A. and got Beijing gold in the Dec. Those 9 other So Cal medalists most all live in L.A. Also, if you moved to Chula Vista, then you are listed by the IOC as a California resident. You are forever recorded in the Olympic record books as a Southern Californian.

It's amazing how much I've come to detest Stanford in the last few months. I know several Stanford grads and none of them is as arrogant as the pro Stanford posters here. If University of Oregon is such a bullet to a career, explain Phil Knight. A RUNNER at Oregon will be set for life if she chooses to stay with the company. If not, an Oregon degree and a multi time All-American and Oregon connections are worth a lot in any field. There are a million reasons to go to Stanford. There are a million others to choose another school as well. This is the reason that Stanford loses the recruiting wars every year since Vin left. This is not disputable. If Stanford is such the obvious choice, how come three out of five of their top recruits choose another school each year. (Three out of four last year for guys). I coach and usually tell kids to visit Stanford and of the ones that have have visited, not one has gone. One has gone to Oregon. If you Stanford alum really love your school, shut up. You ARE turning kids and coaches off.

Your post: "I was just looking up rankings on the top undergraduate schools from

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-search/

UW is the 41st school and oregon is 108th. Also UW is the 11th state school. There is a big discrepancy between UO and UW schools. Those other schools on you list are 4th stanford, 21st cal, 25th UCLA and 27th USC. So yes UW is not as high as those but is no where near oregon."

So you make everyone's point...if Hassay is most interested in an education, she should go to Stanford, Cal, USC, UCLA, or any one of 40 schools that rate above Washington. If she is most interested in furthering her potential running career, she should go to a Oregon or Colorado type school.

It's easy to get into the top echelon universities like (I only know top Engineering schools, not in any particular order) UCLA, USC, Cal, MIT, Caltech, UCSB, CMU, Michigan, UCSD, Stanford, but tougher than all hell to graduate. Look at how many drop out and leave early. They always say "I didn't like the coach", or "the Stanford Athletic Department limited my potential" when in reality they just couldn't handle the academics. It's a free country and people can pick whichever school they like. It's better when preps realize that they won't be able to handle the load and choose the 4 year running camps offered by Metcalf and Vin at Washington or Oregon. If that makes them happy then why should anyone object. But don't slam the nation's top echelons, because that just shows what an ass you really are.

Escondido Village wrote:

It's easy to get into the top echelon universities like (I only know top Engineering schools, not in any particular order) UCLA, USC, Cal, MIT, Caltech, UCSB, CMU, Michigan, UCSD, Stanford, but tougher than all hell to graduate. Look at how many drop out and leave early. They always say "I didn't like the coach", or "the Stanford Athletic Department limited my potential" when in reality they just couldn't handle the academics. It's a free country and people can pick whichever school they like. It's better when preps realize that they won't be able to handle the load and choose the 4 year running camps offered by Metcalf and Vin at Washington or Oregon. If that makes them happy then why should anyone object. But don't slam the nation's top echelons, because that just shows what an ass you really are.

Do they not have English classes at engineering schools?

BTW- UCSD? Really?

Also, what name runner has dropped out of Stanford in the last 20 years? I know five off the top of my head that abandoned athletics but took the degree.

Joaquin Chapa

Wrong...Joaquin enjoyed his Stanford experience and achieved his bachelors degree. The fact that he chose to pursue a post grad program at Oregon in no way indicates any problem/dissatisfactin with Stanford. To the contrary.

Joaquin graduated from Stanford in 2007. He transferred to Oregon to use his final year of eligibility and to pursue a masters degree in Journalism. He is a fine young man, and you have your facts confused.

Chapa did not drop out. He graduated early.

Just so you know - I have a Stanford undergrad degree. I was a middle-of-the-packer with a 3.3 GPA and a Psych degree (which I had no intention of ever using; I just liked the classes). In every (every!) job interview I've ever had, the reaction was the same: how soon can you start and how much are you asking as a starting salary (not that I always got what I asked)?

Anyone that thinks that a Stanford degree is no different than any other (non-Ivy) school, simply doesn't know.

Ms. Hasay needs to think long and hard about her future after running.

time capsule wrote:

What are you talking about? Hasay is not at the level of Schaff, Babcock, Lawrence, Kozinski or Blood right now much less Felix. These girls could have run FL in the mid to upper 16's.

She will have a chance at a normal collge life for a couple of years and still run lights out. She's never had a chance at being a true teammate on equal ground in HS and college running will give her that chance. It doesn't seemed to have hurt Babcock or Kosinski so far. Last I checked both of these girls only ran in 4-5 races this XC season. Hardly a burnout scenario.

really?....seems to me Jordan has won the last two USA junior XC championship and has a good chance for another...maybe Schaff, Babcock, Lawrence, Kozinski or Blood should show up and see if they can beat Jordan...other college girls couldn't, maybe they can?

I believe Jordan would have won four Footlockers if not USA Junior XC championships, but she was getting ready for Worlds...even though she did not go.

Not only that when Jordan decides to peak for the bigs races like the Olympic trials....Jordan showed she can run with the best...Pro's, college, and Top HSer's..(Babcock)...you don't expect her to peak for all 25 races a year do you?

Hi,

I would just like to clear a few things up. I don't know where UCLA/USC came up, but Jordan is looking at mainly Oregon, Washington, and Stanford. She also visited University of Arizona and Arizona State as well as Oregon, and will visit Washington and Stanford soon. To all of you posters telling her to go professional, she is not considering that at this point. She got a valuable experience this summer at the Olympic Trials, but she is not quite at the level some of the top runners there are. I'm not at liberty to say which college she is leaning to or will possibly choose, but it will be one that she will appreciate the most and get the most out of.. and that decision is solely up to her, and she is definitely smart enough to make the right decision.

Well,that should just about end this thread-thank God.

Good luck Jordan.

A Fan of Allie wrote:

OK, you got me on this one. Oregon does not offer Engineering degrees. They do offer Business, Architecture, Law, Education, et al. But yes, you are correct that is an impressive list of athletes who have gone to Stanford and done well after college. But, do you make my point....all these great distance runners came out of Vin's legacy at Stanford. It seems that now he is doing the same for his athletes at Oregon. So, other than during Vin's tenure at Stanford, there are few successful pros coming from that school...and NONE from Washington.

Hall and Dobson didn't run 13:15 and 13:16 until they were coached by Gerard. Lambie was coached by Tegen.

Hi,

I would just like to clear a few things up. UCLA/USC is definitely a possibility and she may sign a pro contract if an offer is right. It was a surprise this summer at the Olympic Trials for all of us, and she is quite ready to begin a regimen for international competition. I'm not at liberty to say which college she is leaning to or whether she will go pro, but it will be one that she will appreciate the most and get the most out of.. and that decision is solely up to her, and she is definitely smart enough to make the right decision.

WA has a great team and Kelly is a great, unhearalded and unappreciated coach who has not been given the credit she deserves. There are many choices and WA would be a good one for JS.

Hall and Dobson didn't run 13:15 and 13:16 until they were coached by Gerard. Lambie was coached by Tegen.

She's going to take classes online at the University of Phoenix, and Gabe Jennings will be her coach for the 1500 in London.